Police seize heroin, ecstasy, crack in Middletown raid

March 28, 2013 - 1:31 PM

MIDDLETOWN -- City police and sheriff's deputies raided a home Thursday on West Prospect Avenue in Middletown, arresting three people on felony drug charges and seizing significant amounts of heroin, ecstasy -- some of which apparently had been incorporated into lollipops and candies -- as well as crack cocaine.

Police said they seized:-- 2 1/2 ounces of heroin, with a street value of $17,500;-- 15 grams of crack;-- an ounce of ecstasy, also known as MDMA, with a street value of $2,800; -- 47 ounces of "a crystallized substance elieved to be MDMA which had been poured and hardened in molds to form candies and lollipops."

Police charged Rajahn Lee, 34, and Shadasha Turner, 39, of West Prospect Avenue, with second- and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, felonies. Robert Smith, 48, who city officials said appears to be the homeowner, was charged with misdemeanor drug possession.

Lee and Turner are being held in Orange County Jail without bail. Smith was arraigned and released, said city court officials.